Wildfires again!

[measure-it]

Where did all this cancer & other illnesses come from?

 

[deleted user]

In the last 5 years it’s become the norm to spray glyphosate or another desiccant to speed it up.

 

[Allen]

Please don't refer to glyphosate as a desiccant. It's an herbicide. Desiccants absorb or adsorb moisture to keep something else dry. Herbicides kill plants. Ag interests have been incorrectly using the word for years now, because...well, telling people you're spraying their grains with an herbicide was considered much less customer appreciated.

 

[deleted user]

Please don't refer to glyphosate as a desiccant. It's an herbicide. Desiccants absorb or adsorb moisture to keep something else dry. Herbicides kill plants. Ag interests have been incorrectly using the word for years now, because...well, telling people you're spraying their grains with an herbicide was considered much less customer appreciated.

Fair point. I’m just using their word which is liberal interpretation of drying the plant out.

By the same metric an arrow to the pumping station of a deer is a desiccant.

 

[Fritz the Cat]

With all the moisture this year plants tillered several times. Now there is dead ripe mature grain and several phases of younger green heads. Farmers years ago, swathed the grain leaving it to dry in the windrow.

Swathing is an extra pass over the fields and slower than straight cutting. Farmers are supposed to wait ten days after spraying before harvest. It is claimed by day ten glyphosate completely breaks down. I am not convinced.

When the patent rights on Roundup expired, glyphosate prices became cheap. China makes the bulk of glyphosate now.

Bayer May Stop Producing Glyphosate​

• By Jesse Allen
• / April 17, 2025

Bayer says it may stop producing glyphosate, the world’s most popular weedkiller unless it can get court protection against lawsuits blaming the herbicide for causing cancer. The Wall Street Journal says Bayer currently produces about 40 percent of the world’s glyphosate needs, which farmers use to kill weeds that threaten their crops.
Over the last ten years, the herbicide has also caught Bayer up in a number of lawsuits. In early March, Bayer told farmers, suppliers, and retailers that it may have to stop selling Roundup, which would force U.S. farmers to rely on imported glyphosate from China. “We’re pretty much reaching the end of our road,” Bayer Chief Executive Bill Anderson told the Journal. “We’re not talking years but months instead.”
The USDA points out that more than 90 percent of soybeans, corn, and cotton crops planted in the U.S. are genetically modified to withstand the glyphosate-based weedkiller.

 

[Browneye]

I realize we will never go back to the days of not using any chemical. I just wish there were unbiased studies not paid for by the chemical manufactures showing the risks to the food supply so people could weigh the risks and make their own decision about their food choices. Does anyone really believe that you can spray roundup on a dry wheat kernel and after 12 days no spray residue would remain in the grain when it gets milled for food? What other dry food do you eat that you would be willing to spray roundup directly on and be willing to eat after 12 days? I have always felt the same way about the phostoxin pellets that you put in grain bins to kill weevils. The gas released kills the insects that are crawling around on the grain. Is it really possible that all residues of that gas are completely gone from that dry grain in the bin before it gets sold and milled for flour? I'm not totally anti ag chemical and I use chemical myself but you have to wonder about what it might be doing to us.

 

[Allen]

Glyphosate has not only been found to cause cancer, but increasingly seems linked to gastrointestinal problems. In particular, Celiac's disease (gluten intolerance).

It's been a number of years, but there have been studies that have found glyphosate in breakfast cereals. https://ceh.org/glyphosate-herbicide-found-popular-cereals/

 

[guywhofishes]

30 ppm is the maximum residual limit for glyphosate on wheat - which seems awfully high to me.

Then again - since feeding lab animals lots more than that shows glyphosate to be relatively benign in mammalian biology, then that seems reasonable.

who to trust?

nobody this day/age it seems - not a good development - all torn down by politicians and our own laziness

 

[Browneye]

I'm sure some of you have come across the videos of people in the US that have gluten intolerance that when they travel to Italy or other countries over there eat bread and pasta and don't have any problems with it. Well roundup is banned in most parts of Europe. And the reason its so hard to trust studies done in the US is the Incestuous relationship between the FDA and Monsanto. I seen it many years ago so wouldn't know where to find it but the article I saw showed how former heads of FDA if they approve the right stuff after their stint in the govt then go on to be on the board at Monsanto and vice versa. Our FDA is a joke and has been in the pocket of big corp for many years.

 

[lunkerslayer]

There all kinds of information on glyphosate in our food supplies, just google it. I read like Reagan gave big pharma the NVCIA IN 86 perhaps the fda will give Monsanto immunity in future claim or Monsanto will take a page out of the big tobacco book where after all lawsuits are settled no one can come after then again.

 

[johnr]

We even have plastic in our brains, its neat

 

[luvcatchingbass]

We even have plastic in our brains, its neat

Play-Doh is not just fun to play with it is also a tasty snack

 

[Rowdie]

 

[Rowdie]

 

[Wally World]

Today the Canadian smoke IN BISMARCK and surrounding area is rated "UNHEALTHY"...

It's not safe to even be outside today! Hopefully Trump will get down on our corrupt neighbors to the North that have been mismanaging their forests and firefighting efforts. They are poisoning our air in the US for going on 3+ years and don't give it shit about the air pollution poisoning and killing our people. Trump needs to start imposing tariffs on everything coming out of Canada until they start actually fighting their fires and until they stop the starting of all these fires. Start hitting them with huge tariffs (Like 100-300% until these communists reduce their air pollution to acceptable levels and watch how fast these fires would go out! Seems these fires are started and left to burn to further the "Climate Change" agenda. This shit needs to stop!

 

[Allen]

I'm looking forward to you making a billion dollars with your anti-lightning invention.

Are you seeking investors?

 

[double account removed]

boy imagine if fellas like us were really in charge lmao tank the economy punish american companies n workers not to mention consumers who pay those tariffs to try n make canda spend billions on disasters not like any of our pollution heads their way all because daddy told us not to like canada anymore our brains are truly broken to have this thought process lmao eat it libs

 

[Rowdie]

This is how they're starting

 

[SurvivalAmazon88]

It's so gross out! Ugh

 

[svnmag]

If I were ruler of Canada I'd seed the burned areas with high octane pot for next years events and stop all the bitching. Use the planes to water the crop then stop at "harvest time". No hiking!



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